Today, the New York Times Fib article appeared on the CNET site. You don't have to click in, as it's just another version of the same article... but I love how this article began in the Arts section of the Times and is now on the CNET News section. Really. I do love that. I hope that shows how Fibs can cut across all sorts of lines and prove fun for all. I admit I'm surprised I haven't seen more sports related Fibs, but maybe as baseball season picks up?
I'm totally wiped out after a weekend full of stuff, so I'm gonna leave you tonight with a reminder that good Fibbish links are over to the right on the blog under "The Fibs," or you can simply scroll down, as I plan to keep all of April's posts on the main blog page throughout National Poetry Month/Math Awareness Month. There are Fibs in the comments all over the blog, and they're well worth checking out. I'll be updating in the morning, I hope, but until (and after!) then, I hope folks will feel free to add Fibs in the comments here or elsewhere.
Since you're talking about sports... I wrote one last week, here it is:
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One
Two
Three Strikes
Take your base
Intentional walk
A high fly ball deep to right field
It's up, up and away, Strawberry hits the roof, damn
That relates the time I was at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal and Daaaaaaaaaarryl hit the Big-O's roof... while I was buying a hot-dog!
K
http://lkm696.blogspot.com/2006/04/hot-dog.html
Here's another sports one (written by my UK sweetie, Doug Pugh):
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Kicks
On
The grass
Are always
Preferable to
Kicks in the ass that losses bring
And here's one of mine (non-sports related, of course!) from Canada:
tick
tock
quiver
watch and wait
but don't forget, now
time's a dangerous thing to waste
cop. scares. us to death. although we stay alive. proceed with an electrifying. display of a power trip while i rest in urine.
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Hey Greg --
ReplyDeleteHave you seen http://www.textism.com/bucket/fib.html? Sorry if I am repeating something you have already shared.
A (non-baseball) sports fib for you . . .
Puck
Ice
Slashing
Penalty
The box is lonely.
Two minutes are up soon enough.
p.s. I am not very happy with your introducing me to babble!
too
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words today
stop asking for more
let my paper breath a little
Greg,
ReplyDeleteI've had another hockey fib percolating (or taking up valuable brain space, depending on how you look at it) since this morning. It has finally hatched.
He
shoots . . .
He scoooooooooooores!
The puck glides
through the goalie's legs.
He skates around in victory.
xo
vbd
Can I post self-criticism?? Upon a second reading, I realized that proper English would dictate that I use "between" rather than "through." But that would mess up the syllable count. Hmmm. An imperfect fib is better than no fib at all?
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